National Black Chamber of Commerce CEO: I can’t believe I voted for this Marxist

posted at 7:25 pm on April 29, 2011 by Allahpundit

A palate cleanser via the Laura Ingraham show starring NBCC President Harry Alford. Turns out Obama’s anti-business. Who knew?

I’m tempted to call this red meat but that doesn’t begin to capture it. This meat is so red, it’s still attached to the cow. Good lord. I think I need to lie down just to digest it all. The clip’s long, but hang around at least to the point where they get to talking about Clarence Thomas. Alford is disdainful, but Ingraham is ready for him.

Update: It had slipped my mind but commenters refreshed my memory. Yes, this is in fact the same Harry Alford who went nuclear on Barbara Boxer during Senate testimony for being racially condescending.

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No, no – you’re right. We know this from the daily drumbeat of “oppose Obama = racist” we keep hearing from the left, so this fellow is certainly, undoubtedly, racist. But the left telling us that saying this means your a racist means that they’re calling this guy a racist, and he’s black, so *they* must be racists every time they suggest that anyone opposing Obama is racist.

What he is saying about 35% won’t support Obama may be based on the PJM Tea Party tracking poll done prior to the 2010 elections. If his is an independent (or even just personal assessment) within the black community, then there is something going on that no one is looking at and that the major polling outfits may be trying to avoid: crumbling of support for Democrats in the black community.

If that internal conversation within households moves to an inter-household dialogue, then there will be rumblings across the political spectrum that will fracture the Left and Democratic party. Even a 20% walkout would be stunning… a third or more?

This was great.
Now, get this message to your brethren, sir…. NOW !!
Sometimes all one needs is someone of integrity to make statements like these, to give others some “cover” … meaning, the boost to stand up and agree, knowing someone else is on their side.
Hope that makes sense .. does to me, just hard to describe.

Laura is still using Island in the Sun by Weezer as her bumper music. Awesome. haha I haven’t been able to listen to her since they replaced her with Hannity here in Denver.sigh….I miss listening to Laura.

All the more respect for the guy for saying both things. No one will blame a black guy who isn’t a fire-breathing conservative for voting for the first black-ish President, but calling him out as a Marxist now gives this guy Absolute Moral Authority.

He will be called an uncle tom racist in 5,4,3…..
LOL
I know he will never read this but.
Dude don’t be too hard on yourself. Alot of people were duped by him and the press. The good news, you now see. Welcome to the real world.

..in fairness, he copped to that fact; i.e., he realized how foolish it sounds now. What *is* unreal is his assertion that Obama’s support form a hurting black community will dwindle to 35% — from his lips to God’s ears.

The only thing worse to the race men and the condescending Liberal bigots than the first black Dem presidential candidate not getting elected in the first place, is him not getting re-elected. Being a one-term president would necessitate viewing him as a failure to reasonable people, and would be unacceptable to the usual suspects.

If they’re going to equate his worthiness with his race, then of course they’ll peg his failure to his race-that is, the racism of Americans in general.

But then, I wonder what would happen to this argument that we can’t be mostly racists because the guy was elected in the first place?

I’m having trouble giving him some slack because if, in the runup to the 2008 election, I knew Obama was trouble for the country, he should have known too. It’s not like our side was keeping it a secret, we were screaming it from the rooftops. It’s aggravating that he doesn’t realize that the liberals–his side, so to speak–have so demonized the Republicans and conservatives that he didn’t even bother to listen to the other side to see if their concerns were valid.

He’s sitting there saying, “Obama’s a Marxist! He’s destroying the country!” And then admitting he voted for the guy simply because he was BLACK.

Well, because you had your race blinders on, sir, our country is circling the porcelin bowl, headed for the sewers. My only hope is that in your penance, you shout loudly enough from the rooftops that perhaps you can make that 35% of non-voters for Obama a reality in the next election, or you can kiss your country goodbye and realize you helped flush it down the crapper.

Then he goes on to admit that the only reason he voted for O’Bawesome was because he was also black.

cynccook on April 29, 2011 at 7:40 PM

And then he admitted he was wrong – or in other words acted like an adult.

That’s a man, there. If I’d given up after some of the whoppers I’ve fallen prey to I never would have lived this long. You’ll find that out too – the only way you can be sure of not making mistakes is to do nothing at all, and I can guarandamntee you that won’t work after about age 30.

I’ve gone on before in these threads about the black people I’ve known and cared for, and who’ve cared for this fatherless boy over a long, long road. I’ve never had a doubt that all black people weren’t gonna go on being fooled by this crap forever.

Listen to the stuff Alford quotes from Booker T. Washington. “Bring yourself up, get an education, and have trust in God.” Sounds simple, and it is, but nobody taught me that until they did. Old-time common sense from people who know what hurts.

actually admits on national radio that he voted for The One because he’s black.

And 3/4′s of whites voted for him for the same reason but don’t have the guts to admit it. It couldn’t have been his record! (sarc)
I can honestly say I did not vote for Obama because of his ideology, not his skin tone. I will happily vote for Herman Cain or Alan West given the opportunity, because they are conservatives and their ideas and ideals would lead this country back to its leadership position in the world once more.

Good interview, I know black businessmen just like him who voted for Obama because of his color (though wouldn’t admit it as openly as he did) that are now souring on Obama, but in no way will Obama lose 30% of the black vote this time around, NO way. Obama may lose black enthusiasm and may slip to just under 90% of the black vote, but once the election is about the election of the first black President VS a white Republican, the block voting habits of the black community will remain the same as always. If Herman Cain were the nominee, maybe he could get 15% of the black vote which would be huge for the GOP, but that is a big maybe.

I’m sure it’s already been said, but can you imagine the leader of a huge organization claiming “I voted for McCain because he’s White”. The State Run Media skewers anyone who criticizes obowma (D). Anyone except Blacks.